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Washington paved the way for federal clean cars standards

Nathan Willcox, Environment Washington's federal global warming program director, thanked President Obama for announcing a plan to double fuel-efficiency standards nationwide to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Washington helped pave the way for this historic move with our own pioneering clean car standards.

Wind power in Washington could prevent 8 coal-fired power plants-worth of global warming pollution if wind supplied 30 percent of the nation’s electricity needs, according to a new analysis by Environment Washington Research & Policy Center. The analysis comes just as Congress considers whether to renew tax credits critical to wind development.

American wind power already produced enough energy in 2013 to power 15 million homes. Continued, rapid development of wind energy would allow the renewable resource to supply 30 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2030, providing more than enough carbon reductions to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan.

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Learn the truth about fracking. Watch out new expose and take action to stop fracking today. Our new video features experts and communities speaking out about fracking's harmful impacts on our environment and health. Take action